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Previously: South Korea: Choker President Apologizes for Martial Law, Vows to Never Do It Again The sonovabitch pulled it off. I’ll be damned. Reuters: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is still commander in chief and there is no disruption to the U.S. alliance, the defence ministry said on Monday after it was revealed Yoon... Read More
Previously: South Korea: President Declares Martial Law for a Few Hours, Says “JK LOL” He seems really sorry. What a faggot. The Guardian: “Increased public anger and betrayal”? Was that machine translated from Korean? “The president’s very existence is the bi
So, this guy declared martial law. He published a document saying he was shutting down the entire government and sending the military to take over because the opposition is working with North Korea. Frankly, I have no idea what the context of this is. People on Twitter are claiming all kinds of things, but the... Read More
Not even “but the Norks are on their side though!!!111” is enough to get the South Koreans to support the disgusting, whining, pathetic, entitled hohol pigs. No one likes these Ukrainians except homosexuals who view them as comrades-in-arms. Everyone else in the world is sick of hearing them whine and demand the whole world care... Read More
Related: Axios: Pentagon “Shocked” by Houthi Weapons and Capabilities North Korea is funny, because these people are totally blockaded and sanctioned into oblivion but they have ultra-high IQs so they just roll with it and keep building weapons. They can sell these weapons to others. RT: I wish I was from an isolated and totally... Read More
So is Trump going to end the war in the Ukraine in order to funnel the funds into the Middle East? Maybe! We should find out in the next week or so if he’s going with that. As President Elect, he has the total authority to start making calls. If I had to guess, I’d... Read More
Related: Blinken Claims Russia Deploying 8,000 Koreans Because He’s So Weak He Needs 8,000 Guys I read about a theory that the reason the US is pumping up this idea of North Korea being in the Ukraine is because they have wanted to send South Koreans to fly bomber jets against Russia. Now the South... Read More
Do you know who doesn’t have gay anal maximalism? The real Korea, run by Kim Jong-Un. The real Korean government protects family values while the terrorist rebellion state, “South Korea,” forces people to have anal sex with men. Reuters: [image][F]https:
Kim should do this. It’s fun and awesome and it’s great for his troops to get war experience. However, I’m not going to believe it is actually happening just because the disreputable rebels in the south of Korea are claiming it is happening. The rebels want aid in their fight against the legitimate government of... Read More
I was visiting Japan’s defense HQ about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office. I kept walking about until I noticed a large diagram on his desk. I looked more closely and was amazed to discover that it was the plan... Read More
Listening to women isn’t working. Look, the world has big problems. Big, big problems. Deep fake porn is not at the top of the list for any objective observer. But if you ask women, they’re probably going to list deep fake porn as the number one problem, or at least in the top 5. No... Read More
South Korea’s entire model for convincing women to have kids is based on the theory that they are not having kids because of economic concerns. This isn’t going to work. Seriously. This is not an economic issue. That is a total hoax. Women will not have kids unless you remove their options. You cannot talk... Read More
This is what feminism does, this is what consumerism does, this is what modernity does. This is what women do. Women would rather have fun and go around exercising sexual power over men than get married and have kids. Korea Times: Even under a more moderate population decline scenario, the middle variant projection indicates that... Read More
Anyone who believes there is such a thing as a “South Korea” is a lunatic. This is no different than the Taiwan situation. “South Korea” is a rebel base set up and funded and armed by the US government. They’re the ones preventing peace. Unlike “South Korea,” women in the only true Korea are having... Read More
You don’t need to be an expert on Asian economic and security issues to know that if Japan and Korea want to avoid war and to make a lot of money, they should pivot away from America completely and line up with the Chinese. This is very obvious. It’s unclear if the Japanese and Koreans... Read More
Hey, RETARDS. I already told you this, six million times: there is no way to incentivize women to have kids. The incentives are already there. They’ve been there this whole time. At this point in history, reasonable fit teenage virgin can marry a multimillionaire and have his kids and live fantastically for the rest of... Read More
Finally, Asia is adjusting to the new reality, which is that China is number one. If the Axis would have won World War II, or if the US wouldn’t have crippled Japan afterward, maybe we’d be having a different discussion. But what happened happened, and China is number one, and Asians need to recognize that... Read More
This is very obvious. All of the American media people complaining about this and calling these “racist comments” should be forced to do a test and show that they can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. Because I guarantee you, they can’t tell. Anyone who has enough racial experience to have started picking... Read More
Although the compulsion to travel is universal, nearly all of it is only done virtually, and I’m not just talking about the internet, of course, but reading books, looking at photos, telling and hearing stories, or just thinking. We can’t stand to be confined to one miserable or paradisal spot while knowing everything else is... Read More
Coming to South Korea on a 90-day tourist visa, I never thought I would need to renew it, but thanks to the coronavirus, I had to, just last week. Encountering bureaucracy anywhere is usually stressful, but thankfully, the process here was quick and straightforward. Koreans know how to be efficient. Buses and trains always run... Read More
From the moment I was born, I’ve wanted to write a 20,000-word tribute to Barbra Streisand, but this is not it, unfortunately. I’m still not ready. Instead, I want to talk about how we routinely distort, embellish or simply erase much the past, so what’s preserved and presented is not so embarrassing. It’s a universal... Read More
Five months into the coronavirus crisis, there is no consensus about anything. When this virus was mostly limited to China, I tried to get as close as possible, so for two weeks, I stayed in Lao Cai, Vietnam. Nearly each day, I walked along the Red River to look into Yunnan, and what I saw... Read More
In South Korea, you can still get on buses and trains, or just wander around for miles at your leisure, so yesterday, I was in Gimhae. Like all Korean cities, it unashamedly flaunts nondescript, skyscraping condos and sterile, soulless churches that surely prove there is no God, for there’s no way he would tolerate so... Read More
My freshman year in college, I had an English teacher, Stanley Ward, who said, “All writing is about sex or death,” which drew laughs from us idiots, for it sounded like a joke, but if you consider how everything falls within the continuum between the generation of life and its negation, then of course Mr.... Read More
As the Raging Twenties unleash a radical reconfiguration of the planet, coronavirus (literally “crowned poison”) has for all practical purposes served a poisoned chalice of fear and panic to myriad, mostly Western, latitudes. Berlin-based, South Korean-born philosopher Byung-Chul Han has forcefully argued the victors are the “Asian states like Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan... Read More
A high-level Italian virologist, Giuseppe Remuzzi, has published papers in the Lancet and other articles in which he states facts not hitherto known. [1] The doctor stated that Italian physicians now recall having seen: “a very strange and very severe pneumonia, particularly in old people in December and even November [2019]. This suggests that the... Read More
As a chicken chomping, coke snorting species, we have three main foes. 1) Beasts more ferocious than us, such as tigers, lions and, well, just about all other animals, since we’re such wimps. 2) Living organisms we can’t even see, such as viruses. 3) Other men, of course, since man is clearly man’s most lethal... Read More
Springtime in Korea. Peace and love have erupted all over the mountainous peninsula as the leaders of the two rival nations seek to end the nearly seven decades of hostility between them. One can’t underestimate the passionate longing felt by most Koreans on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) for some form of reunification... Read More
Here’s a recent typical headline about the upcoming talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un: “Will Trump’s Ignorance (and Bolton’s Impetuousness) Doom the North Korea Summit?” When it comes to ignorance, there can be little question that the Trump administration is in a league all its own. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,... Read More
When, in early March, Donald Trump agreed to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the Washington foreign policy elite nearly suffered a collective heart attack. For one thing, the announcement came as a complete surprise. Trump had telegraphed his other foreign policy bombshells well in advance: leaving the Paris climate accord, ripping up the Iran... Read More
Kim Jong-un is not trying to pull a fast one on Trump. He doesn't have something up his sleeve, and he's not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. He wants to end the war, establish good relations with his neighbors in the South, and get on with the business of improving the lives... Read More
A wonderful, joyful day, a jubilant summit! On the bloody 38th parallel, for the first time in many years, the two Koreans met, the leaders of the two Korean states. There were affable smiles and a spontaneous brief and unscripted visit of the southern president to the northern country, and then the northern one -... Read More
Mike Pence's trip to the Pyeongchang Olympics was an unmitigated disaster. In just 48 hours, the Vice President managed to insult nearly everyone he encountered including South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un's younger sister, Kim Yo-Jong. The overbearing Pence flaunted his contempt for the Korean people by humiliating their leaders, shrugging off their... Read More
Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe. That would be true above all for the roughly 76 million Koreans living on... Read More
Fearing that peace might break out with the two Koreas talking to each other, Washington instructed South Korean President Moon Jae-in to keep the message about anything but peace. It is not just Trump. A former top official for the Obama administration warned Moon that South Korea was not going to get anywhere with the... Read More
To back up Defense Secretary "Mad Dog" Mattis' warning last month, that the U.S. "remains steadfast in its commitment" to its allies, President Donald Trump is sending B-1 and B-52 bombers to Korea. Some 300,000 South Korean and 15,000 U.S. troops have begun their annual Foal Eagle joint war exercises that run through April. "The... Read More
Until recently, East Asia shunned globalism. Economically advanced and yet ethnically homogeneous, the region seemed to show that modernity can co-exist with the traditional structures of family, kinship, ethny, and nation. We can be more than just individuals in a global marketplace. Yet East Asia is now catching up to the West. South Korea has... Read More
Post updated, 9/14/14 6/5/14. See below! In my earlier post on Gregory Clark's work, The Son Becomes The Father, I laid bare the case for the known high heritability of human behavioral traits (including values and attitudes) and life outcomes. As well, equally important, I illustrated the complete absence of shared environment influences on these... Read More
[This piece may be reposted if Asia Times Online is credited and a link provided.] In other words, it’s time for the United States to engage in a full-throated celebration of the pivot to Asia with what I think is going to be President Obama’s America F*ck Yeah tour of Asian democracies in April 2014.... Read More
Old hatreds bred from old atrocities and injustices are slow to disappear. South Korean President Park Geun-hye said at the start of visits to France and Britain this week that she is willing to hold a summit anytime with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whose country intermittently threatens war against South Korea. But she... Read More
Just horsing around? Or is there also a political message? It’s year’s end, and to date I’ve written nothing on the three themes I promised to blog about back in January. One reason was the need to comment on certain unforeseen events, like Phil Rushton’s death and the confirmation that Europeans became white-skinned long after... Read More
McDonald’s in Taipei. By the 1990s, Taiwan had already become a “post-nation” (source) East Asia has long been bucking the trend toward globalization. Its countries have become major players in the global marketplace, while jealously guarding their cultural specificity and national character. But East Asia is now getting with the program. South Korea in particular... Read More
Cartoon lampooning the traffic in mail-order brides (source). About 40% of married men in rural South Korea have wives of foreign origin. Until recently, South Korea had no ethnic minorities. Nor did it have a history of being a colonial power. While slavery did exist, the slaves were not from elsewhere. Today, however, the country... Read More
In 2003, Qaddafi dismantled Libya’s nuclear arms program in exchange for better relations with the West. At the time, it seemed like a great idea ... Let me summarize my last series of posts. We are nearing the end of relative global peace, specifically the peace that has reigned since the Korean armistice was signed... Read More
Member and observer states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). In both the east and the west, defense alliances have become less centralized and more loosely defined since the end of the Cold War. They no longer contain regional conflicts and may actually cause them to go global. (source) Tensions are mounting on the Korean... Read More
North Korean shelling of Yeongpyeong Island, November 23, 2010. Why are tensions rising in Korea? There has been much talk about B.R. Myers’ book: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves—and Why It Matters. Far from being communists, the North Koreans are, well, Nazis. And that matters a lot to us. Or so the... Read More
“Global Korea” poster. Has South Korea become the new posterboy for globalism? East Asia has been an outlier in the developed world. Like Western Europe and North America, it is integrated into the global economy and enjoys a high standard of living. This is particularly so for the original five ‘tigers’: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan,... Read More
Update: I am willing to grant that China disrupted rare earth shipments to Japan over the Diaoyutai/Senkaku incident. That's a distinction I should have made in the Asia Times article, and I regret not doing so. Given the quota system/smuggling structure of China's rare earth trade, it would be easy to slow or stop exports... Read More
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